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Bushwick Inlet The Site Where The Monitor Was Built

Many students of the Civil War who know that that famous ironclad Monitor was built in Brooklyn, assume that it was built at the Brooklyn…

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Monument to Ironclad Monitor in Greenpoint Brooklyn Photo Tour

Msgr. McGolrick Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood is a popular local greenspace and playground, but it is little known to people living outside the community’s…

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Posted in Places to Visit Women and Gender

Harriet Tubman Grave Auburn Photo Tour

Harriet Tubman moved to Auburn, New York shortly before the Civil War. While she was away from her home there for much of the Civil…

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Lincoln Cottage Was Lincoln’s Summer Home Photo Tour

The summer of 1864 was one of the bloodiest in American history. Against a background of the horrible battles of the last year of the…

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David Ruggles Home Stop on the Underground Railroad

David Ruggles was one of the most effective organizers of the Underground Railroad in New York City. Ruggles was a free Black man from Norwich,…

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Find My Civil War & Reconstruction Photo Tours of History Sites on Google Earth

As many of you know I had a medical issue last March that led to me taking A LOT of very long walks. I try…

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John Ericsson Monument Battery Park NYC Photo Tour

We all know that the Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down…but did you know that one of the most vivid Civil War monuments is…

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New York City City Hall Civil War Photo Tour-Recruiting and Training the Soldier

Note: This page under construction. Expected completion is Feb. 16, 2023.   This well-known drawing shows a recruiting station in City Hall Park in 1864….

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McSorley’s Old Ale House

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Southampton Long Island Civil War Monument

  As I was leaving, I noticed that the posts that the chain around the monument was made of were cannons!

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